Word: worde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...word "dialogue" has descended like a plague on the American press. But this is not the only word that has become overworked. Some other good examples include "relevant" (or "irrelevant") and "confrontation." Your news subjects always seem to be taking a "creative and pragmatic" approach to problems. "Swingers' one and all, they have a "meaningful commitment to life," they're "opening up new channels of communication" and, of course, "getting down to the nitty-gritty." You're a boring bunch of fellows-almost, you might say, "irrelevant." Why don't you get a new dictionary...
...happens almost every day: a policeman catches sight of a suspicious character, stops him and frisks him. But doesn't the Fourth Amendment specifically bar "unreasonable searches and seizures?" It does indeed, said the Supreme Court last week, but the operative word is "unreasonable." Speaking for an 8-to-1 majority, Chief Justice Warren held that the Constitution permits a policeman to accost an individual if there is good reason to suspect that he is up to no good, and to search him for weapons if there is good reason to suspect that he may be armed...
...word "peace" will be said for the last time...
...Want Him Alive." The word that Kennedy was wounded had spread back to the ballroom. Amid the screams and the weeping, Brother-in-Law Stephen Smith's controlled voice came through the loudspeaker system, asking that the room be cleared and appealing for a doctor. Within a few minutes, physicians were found and elbowed their way to Kennedy. More policemen arrived; none had been in the hotel, but a police car had been outside on other business. Rafer Johnson and Rosy Grier turned over their prisoner and the gun. The cops hustled the man out, carrying him part...
Last week Val was as bad as her word. She strode into The Factory, pulled out a .32-cal automatic and pumped a shot into Warhol's chest. As he fought for life in a hospital, pals insisted that he had not brought it on himself. "Violence is everywhere in the air today," said Ultra Violet. "He got hurt in the big game of reality...